Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948

4 Power to make Acts of Sederunt regarding the Register of Sasines.

The Court of Session may, by Act of Sederunt, make provision with regard to the General Register of Sasines,—

(a) prescribing the forms to be used for the purposes of entries in the presentment books, minute books and relative indexes, prescribing the forms of rubrics and preambles in the register volumes, of certificates of recording to be endorsed on writs, of extracts to be issued, and generally of any documents required for the purposes of the Register, and the persons by whom any such documents shall be signed ;

(b) requiring that in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, where reference is made in a writ presented for recording in the Register to a writ previously recorded therein, the reference shall specify, as well as the date of such previous recording, the register volume and folio in which the writ is so recorded ;

(c) for the transmission, at such time or times as may be prescribed, to the Keeper of the Records of Scotland, of the register volumes, presentment books, abstracts, indexes or copies thereof, and any other documents (or copies) prepared or kept for the purposes of the register.